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I go 100 bicep curls plus 100 situps and 100 pushups. Follow it by around an hour or more of running a few dips and then I drink some coke.. few candy bars and my work out's done for the day.. my results are alright.. relatively strong..I just recently started doing the bicep curls and I like to do it every other day now. Unfortunatly for me.. my love of running has made it very very hard to gain weight and muscle mass ='(
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Not even in the mood, never give advice again mr rookie.
To the question at hand, Pretty much its up to you to decide when your overtraining, most people can get away with different things depending on many different circumstances:
New to weight lifting: Your body reacts positively, you can recover as fast as in 24 hours from a intense weight lifting session due to your bodys attempt to adapt and the expended energy to do this, most of the time this is the best muscle gain in your life and can last from 2 months to a year depending on the person.
Calories: these are what really make or break weight lifting, pretty much some peoples bodys respond to weight training depending on calories, if you are in a calorie deficit (or losing weight) then you may have to cut back on the weights due to the massive training expenditure of calories + your natural deficincy your body may not have enough energy to allow the muscle to recover
However, this is a double edged sword, in the same way a person can also recover faster if they are in a surplus because of the bodys extra calories it has calories to use for recovery and you can normally recover quicker lift heavier and just feel better in general, dont try and push it however a 4 day lifting routine split right shouldnt be overtraining in a surplus however, in a deficincy your body is already under alot of strain and if you give it the impression its being overworked/in a famine you could have negative effects.
Movement amount For the most part, alot of the muscles in the body are used for almost every lift, however some are focused on, for example doing bench press/incline/dips on monday, then deadlifts/pull-ups on tuesday, and then work the triceps with decline tricep pulls or something of the sort on wednesday and then you work again on thursday with bench/incline/dips, you risk overtraining, why? Because even if the main muscle target in the tuesday and wednesday lift isnt the biceps, your muscle is being used in all 3 and is being targeted quite a bit and your body can be overtrained and not have time to recover if the same muscle is overworked to much, which may stop progress or even cause muscle loss.
Pretty much, no one can say your overtraining its up to the person to decide where the line is drawn, IMHO if your not going to failure and get adequete rest a person can handle 4-5 days a week however, just be careful if you feel no desire to lift/dont recover quick/no muscular gains, take a week off and look over your routine because chances are your overtraining ..